i missed the chance to join this group live, but i’m watching now. thank you SO much for having these conversations and recording so that others can benefit later. this has been so encouraging, affirming and uplifting. i am planning to watch again and invite my pastor and christian ed board members to join me.
What I think is that the church congregations are supposed to be representative bodies of Christ Jesus. They should be doing what Jesus of Nazareth would be doing in their neighborhoods. Jesus did not seem to promote rapprochement between Sadducee and Zealot, who held divergent persuasions in his country. Sincerely, Jim de Vries
you are speaking of white privilege....mostly. Why do you give so many examples of white privilege as if that is the "supreme" one? I work with disabled adults and I can tell you that privilege has nothing to do with race or color in this group. If one lives in a certain segment of a state or city, there is a privilege of sorts to anyone who is common to that area. I am fed up with "white" being assosiated with negativism.
Privilege - wow, how true. p 103 of Ragman by Walter Wangerin, Jr. reminded me to compliment you on your message on Privilege. I admire you and Julie and your commitment to the children.
Love your ideas here, lov also Richard Rohr. I will share this with my email church. My email church is a group of some 200 who have given up on 'church' but they are faithful readers and have become the on-line that actually contact one another.
Maybe the Gospel of Mark was left incomplete for a reason. Without us, there is no happy end to the story of Jesus. The burden passes to his disciples to live as he did, trusting totally in God's ultimate victory over sin and death. We are a blessed 'Easter people' who dare to live, who act courageously on behalf of justice and who risk everything to follow their dreams. Timid Christians have done more to postpone the coming of God's reign in the world than any enemy of the church.
I've just viewed Campbell Lovett's Faith for Thought: Celebrate. Very well done, Campbell! I also utilized the sub-captions feature and was struck by how many words were inaccurately transcribed. Any way of fixing them? It would also be nice if there was some opportunity for dialogue; a chatroom vs. responding to your message in this comment box. This is a more public venue than I envision. John Rogers
